3rd Person Needs Licensing Too: Examining the se/suu Connection
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Publication date: 21.03.2019
Studies in Polish Linguistics, Special Volume, Special Volume 1 (2019), pp. 11 - 33
https://doi.org/10.4467/23005920SPL.19.004.10984Authors
3rd Person Needs Licensing Too: Examining the se/suu Connection
This paper introduces two instances of person effects with 3rd person items – the reflexive clitic se in French and the non-honorific clitic pronoun suu in Punjabi. Examining the properties of these items, we argue against the phi-feature based accounts of person licensing. Instead, we re-conceptualize it as a syntactico-semantic phenomenon, which requires a pronominal to be contextually-anchored via a feature labeled [F]. More globally, this paper attempts to work out the special status of person and articulate why person requires special licensing in grammar.
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Universität Göttingen, Seminar für Englische Philologie, 37073 Göttingen Germany
Universität Göttingen, Seminar für Englische Philologie, 37073 Göttingen Germany
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